After Kelly Ripa cited Foursquare’s recent ranking of the Christmas City as the nation’s second least romantic city, several city residents called the Downtown Bethlehem Association to tell them to defend the city’s reputation on national television.

Association Manager Samantha Schwartz couldn’t find a phone listing for the show, but she reached out to Ripa every other way she could: by email, text and fax.

The latter worked, and Schwartz’s fax was read on the show Monday, she said.

Schwartz cited the association’s current Week of Romance promotions and the city’s romantic every day offerings.

“We have a local wine shop downtown, amazing chocolate shops, a world-renowned historic hotel and the oldest continuously running bookstore in the country,” Schwartz wrote. “Try us out and we’ll prove you wrong!”